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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ACADEMIA AND MEDIA WORK TOGETHER?
When journalists team up with university researchers, only good things can come of it. Properly managed and done at scale, with universities and media institutionally opening to each other and sharing their intellectual and financial resources to produce knowledge for the public good, investigative research collaboration is very likely to provide an answer, maybe the only one, to the many challenges that both journalism and academia are facing, Marius Dragomir and Robert Nemeth argue in their article.
In their podcast, Dumitrita Holdis and Ian M. Cook took a look at three different innovations that bridge academia and journalism.
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Marius Dragomir and Ian M. Cook shared the most important takeaways of the research project based on the cooperation of journalists and academic researchers.
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BLACK WATERS
Journalists, anthropologists, a sociologist and a natural scientist came together in the Black Waters project to look into the causes and social consequences of environmental damage along the Danube in Romania and in Hungary. The article of Alexandra Czeglédi shows how they came to forge a collaborative investigative process.
The project was implemented in partnership with Átlátszó and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. Balkan Insight published several articles, while Átlátszó interviewed our researchers, Ian M. Cook and Alexandra Czeglédi. The comic book “The Life and Times of Red Mud Reservoir № VII”, the first publication of this kind by our Center, was also published in this project.
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WHO INFLUENCES MEDIA?
In our flagship project, the Media Influence Matrix, in recent weeks we focused on Israel, where unusual opacity is the most salient characteristic of the media system. The involvement of political figures in media operation raises serious concerns. The report, written by Roni Dorot, is the most comprehensive account of funding journalism in Israel to date.
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INNOVATIONS IN JOURNALISM DURING A PANDEMIC
The first podcast in the Journalism Breakthroughs series, hosted by Dumitrita Holdis, discusses how the media coped with the crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic: Innovations in journalism allowed media outlets to survive. You may listen to the podcast here. |
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HOW SALUD CON LUPA RAISED THE STANDARD OF HEALTH REPORTING IN LATIN AMERICA
Started as a Facebook group, Salud con lupa has grown into a digital platform covering public health issues. For its founder, Fabiola Torres, to think about public health is to think about collective wellbeing. In the middle of a pandemic, that is more than a theoretical statement, Patricio Contreras writes in his article (available also in Spanish). |
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HOW A FACEBOOK GROUP INSPIRES INNOVATION
The pandemic increased the need for access to accurate information. A recently created Facebook group, Coronavirus Radio Ideas, binds radio stations, listeners and markets together during lockdowns, our Fellow, John Masuku writes in his article.
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CORONA CAPSULE: A NEPALI RADIO'S QUEST TO FIGHT COVID-19
The creators of the “Corona Capsule” radio show in Nepal are committed to provide important information and advice in an easy-to-listen format. The audience reacted positively. The shows have reached millions of people. To learn more about the show, read the article of our Fellow, Binod Bhattarai.
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DIGITAL SOLUTIONS EXPAND RADIO'S IMPACT IN SOUTH AFRICA
Radio in Africa is rapidly moving to a multi-platform, digital world, but the old terrestrial broadcast remains strong. Radio has strengthened during the Covid-19 lockdown, being increasingly used as a medium that facilitates homeschooling, according to the article of John Masuku, who also described how African radio stations are forced to navigate domestic politics to remain sustainable.
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Gavin Meiring, Director of Radio Solutions shares his thoughts about the transformation of radio stations
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A PATH TO SUSTAINABILITY FOR DIGITAL NEWSROOMS IN LATIN AMERICA
Velocidad, a media accelerator in Latin America, injects money and also explores the different dimensions and challenges of financial health in the news ecosystem. In his podcast, Patricio Contreras discussed how it operates.
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DRAGOMIR QUOTED BY THE ECONOMIST
The Economist covered the developments concerning Voice of America, and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty: The US Senate confirmed Michael Pack, a close ally of Steve Bannon as the new head of the US Agency for Global Media, the parent organization of the channels. Later, the Director of Voice of America resigned, while the head fired the heads of RFE/RL and four other organizations. “ I never imagined I would witness something like this,” our Director, Marius Dragomir said.
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BÁTORFY ON THE PAST TEN YEARS OF HUNGARIAN MEDIA
In partnership with CMDS, our Fellow, Attila Bátorfy published on Átló a visualized summary on how the Hungarian media was changed in the past ten years. “The changes in the market over the last decade were driven by targeted and discriminative state regulation, the disproportionate and unlimited use of state funds, and the taking over by government-friendly interests of a series of independent media companies,” he writes.
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BOGNÁR ON TRUST IN THE MEDIA
“Trust in media, in the news is terribly low globally,” our Senior Program Officer and Researcher, Éva Bognár said in an interview with the radio program Media1 on Spirit FM. She pointed out that trust in the public service broadcaster in Hungary is exceptionally low compared to other countries. According to her, members of younger generations get used to paying for quality and comfort online, and show their loyalty and support for quality journalism.
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DNR 2020: GLOBAL TRENDS ACCELERATED BY THE PANDEMIC
The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020 confirms that some outlets continue to see growth in subscriptions, but also reveals high levels of concern about misinformation online and on social media. DNR's Hungarian partner is CMDS. Our Senior Program Officer and Researcher, Éva Bognár contributed to the report.
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FREE VS PROTECTED INFORMATION ONLINE
The current circumstances may have increased the time we spend in front of screens and possibly further raised our awareness of the crucial role played by the management of information online. Our webinar focused on the notion of “free information” and “protected information”, and highlighted how technical features and legislative reforms fundamentally shape Internet as we know it. The speakers also talked about trends in European platform governance.
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Re-watch the webinar
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DRAGOMIR JOINS THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF JOURNALISM AND MEDIA
Our Director, Marius Dragomir has joined the Editorial Board of Journalism and Media, an international open access journal, published online quarterly by MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute). The recently launched journal is aimed at publishing papers about key issues and enhance theoretical, methodological and empirical innovation in this area. |
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PRIORA WINS CEU'S BEST DISSERTATION AWARD
By the decision of the University Doctoral Committee, our Fellow, Giulia Priora has won Central European University’s Best Dissertation Award in the Academic Year 2019/20, for her dissertation “Justice in EU Copyright Law: A function-based assessment for a sustainable harmonization.” |
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CMDS’ flagship project, Media Influence Matrix now covers more than 50 countries. The main goal of the project is to investigate the profound impact that rapid shifts in policy, funding and technology are having on journalism today. New reports are expected in the upcoming months.
The project aims to collect examples, best practices and lessons from a more diverse set of contexts to enrich the knowledge about innovation in journalism. In the next weeks we will take a look at innovations in Latin America and the Middle East as well.
The Business of Misinformation project keeps track of individuals and companies that own misinformation networks and their links to institutions, political parties, and other individuals. The project also takes the Center to uncharted territories: we are planning to publish our first e-book in the upcoming weeks. |
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About the Center for Media, Data and Society
The Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) is a research center for the study of media, communication, and information policy and its impact on society and practice. Founded in 2004 as the Center for Media and Communication Studies, CMDS is part of Central European University’s School of Public Policy and serves as a focal point for an international network of acclaimed scholars, research institutions and activists. In support of promoting the values of an open society, CMDS produces scholarly and practice-oriented research addressing academic, policy and civil society needs, coordinates course offerings at CEU, provides trainings and consulting services and organizes scholarly exchanges through workshops, lectures and conferences on current developments in the field. Read our strategy here.
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